/lit/ - Literature

What's some good literature on today's epidemic of narcissism?

>>19290194
I am becoming positive all good fiction is supposed to have what you fucking self absorbed narcissists call "unrelatable" or "bad"/ill-intentioned characters. What the fuck do you get out of self insertion? What do you gain from placing yourself within a fictional creation of another's mind, how can points and ideas and meaning just go so far over some people's heads because they're complete narcissists and think representation (of themselves currently intellectually and minorities in appearance only) means something is good?
This thread is bait and you're a faggot but the worst thing is people actually think and expel their opinions on literature (all literature, from cultural epics to high modern fiction) like this, and people will take them seriously because they overpayed for a degree probably.

Anons, I have a confession to make. I realized that Ulysses by Joyce and Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon are, unironically, my favorite books. My favorite pieces of literature are the two of the biggest memes on this board. Does this make me a meme person?
Should I keep this in secret? There is no way it is ok to say Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow are your favorite books if someone asks you. Will I ever be able to share my authentic predilection for my most beloved works of art? Will I ever find peace in the arms of some sort of shy brotherhood?
I feel doomed, and I'm starting to feel like a deserve it, there is no one to blame but myself.
Do any of you, brothers, also suffer for literature? How do you cope? Is there a place or way for you and me to find comfort and relief, even if it is just for a short time, a brief rest, from such a crippling shame?

I think psychoanalysis is patent nonsense and I'd like to hear those opinions repeated back to me in a more erudite way.

(This is probably due to some secondary narcissim which begun when my libido withdrew from myself and found its way to my mother - who knows.)

Any recommendations? Happy to read about it from all angles - feminist, conservative, marxist (if such a critique exists). Squirt your recommendations all over me